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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Struck Car Brothers Injured NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 August 1935 · page 6

When a bicycle they were riding struck a car at the corner of Kerr and Crebert-sts., Mayfield Allenby Hewitt, 15, and his brother, William Hewitt,…

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On Roadside Motor-cyclist Injured HEXHAM

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 August 1935 · page 6

Verdy Lucas, of Maitland-road, Sandgate, was found in a semi-conscious condition on the side of Maitland Newcastle road on Saturday…

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Six Dead Five Injured Dense Fog London, August 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 August 1935 · page 1

Six were killed and five injured when, in a thick fog last night, the S.S. Laurentic collided with the…

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Two Liners in Collision in the Irish Sea FAILED! Peace Negotiation Abyssinia Paris, August 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 August 1935 · page 1

The three Power conference on the Abyssinian dispute ended in failure to-day. An official communique…

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Many Hurt Week-end Accidents Cars Turn Over Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 August 1935 · page 2

In Sydney district thirteen persons were injured in road accidents. Skidding on loose metal, and then…

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Mine Manager's Death Injuries Accidentally Received

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 August 1935 · page 2

The Maitland. District Coromer held an inquiry at the week end into the death of James Rutley, mine manager of Adamstown, who died in Maitland…

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Shooting Fatality at Nabiac

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 2

Mr. Joseph Woodward ,a prominent resident of Nabiac, who left his home after breakfast on Friday morning with the intention of shooting rabbits,…

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Golfer Injured. Struck by Ball

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 1

Mr. L. G. Nelson, one of the party, of Muswellbrook golfers who visited Merriwa at the week-end, is to-day carrying the outsize in bruises on his…

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'Planes Collide Landing Accident Lucky Escapes Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 2

The nine persons occupying two planes which colided at Leeton, escaped injury, although both machines were considerably…

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Two Killed Twenty-three Injured Village Fight Belgrade Aug.20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 August 1935 · page 1

A crashed aeroplane led to a fight between Moslems and Orthox Serbs in the Bosnian village of Rogatica to-day…

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Cyclist Killed Another Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 August 1935 · page 7

Mr. J. Uren, postmaster at West Maitland, has received word of the death of his nephow, Mr. John Uren (23), of St. George Road, Bexley,…

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'Plane Fatality Struck by Propeller Woman Killed Warsaw, August 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 August 1935 · page 1

After flying from Berlin, Mrs. Agnes Stevenson, the British candidate in the Ladies' Chess Championship of the World, and wife of the Secretary…

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Rising Tide Hampers Rescue Injured Workman Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 August 1935 · page 8

Threatened by a rapidly vising tide a Newcastle Ambulance bearer worked with frantic speed on the top of a tiny mudbak in Throsby Creek,…

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Save Life Accidents in Mines Cessnock Inquiry Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 August 1935 · page 7

Mr. J. Connell, District Check inspector, who appeared for the Miners' Federation and the relatives, at the conclusion of an…

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Fatal Accident Saw Catapults Timber MURWILLUMBAH

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 August 1935 · page 4

Struck by a piece of timber at the Couchy Creek sawmill, late yesterday afternoon, Charles Henry Colefax 21, was killed, although only a small…

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Petrol Ablaze Accident at Narrabri NARRABRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 August 1935 · page 8

Placing a tin containing petrol which she believed to be water, on a lighted stove, Mrs. Redman, proprietress of a grocery store in Doyle-street,…

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Jockey Hurt Car Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 August 1935 · page 5

At Bankstown last night, Samuel Charles Shelton, 21, a prominent Sydney jockey, was badly injured when the motor car he was driving got out…

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Drowning Fatality At Port Stephens

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 August 1935 · page 9

In the midst of making preparations before leaving to-morrow morning on a fishing expedition to Port Stephens, Mr. A. J. Cox, of Sydney-street,…

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Cycle Fatality Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 August 1935 · page 7

The death occurred in Newcastle Hospital last night, of James Gilmour, who suffered head injuries when thrown from his motor cycle,…

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Two Missing Believed Drowned NEWCASTLE, Friday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 August 1935 · page 5

Oscar Shepherd, 24, of 21 Henry-st., Tighe's Hill, and Ronald Laman, 21, of Nelson's Bay, are believed to have been drowned at Nelson's Bay…

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